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Jesus I Need You: Honest Prayers from a Trusting Heart

GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart

The Yes Effect: Accepting God's Invitation to Transform the World Around You

Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

Becoming Resilient: How to Move Through Suffering and Come Back Stronger

Winning the Mind Battle: Gaining Control of Your Soul

Awaken: 90 Days with the God Who Speaks

Life as a Prayer: Devotions to Inspire, Invitations to Be Still

Life with the Holy Spirit: Walk in Fellowship and Power with the Third Person of the Trinity

Sacred Mundane: How to Find Freedom, Purpose, and Joy

No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever

Bringing Maggie Home (fiction)

Come and Eat: A Celebration of Love and Grace Around the Everyday Table

Love Welcome Serve: Recipes That Gather and Give

Kale & Caramel: Recipes for Body, Heart, and Table

Nourished: A Memoir of Food, Faith & Enduring Love (with Recipes)

God Bless My School

I Can Do All Things: Sing-A-Scripture Series with Music CD

Where Are You Hiding, God?

Tiny Blessings for Giving Thanks

Monday, July 31, 2017

~LIP BALM MONDAY

My sister gifted me with some Love & Toast lip balms for my bday, and I was thuh-RILLED, because I had been wanting some of them for yearrrs.

Love & Toast's brand name and product packaging are spectacularly cute, and it turns out that what's on the inside gets an A+ as well...

These lippies are all-natural and contain the following ingredients:

olive fruit oil

beeswax

jojoba seed oil

shea butter

cocoa seed butter

natural flavor

hemp seed oil

aloe leaf

vitamin e

stevia leaf extract

The consistency of them is very good--there's a bit of tack, but they're buttery too.

Here's my impression of each flavor that I have...

Green Tea & Mint:

Just as expected; sublty minty with a tea-like tinge.

Rose Sorbet:

Like a natural rose, but not sugary, so sorbet-like?--I don't know. The scent is neither too faint nor too strong, which is good because that can be a tricky line to walk with rose-y products.

Ginger Fizz:

This one smells just like powdered sugar donuts (!?) and has an extremely subtle gingerale-like tinge to it as well.

Strawberry Fields:

I don't have another strawberry-flavored lip balm that's quite like this. It's kind of candy-like, yet not too sweety-sweet, and it has a bit of a tart pluck to it. Interestingly enough, 'strawberry sorbet' would be a fitting name for it. At times I think I might smell a cotton candy-type note as well.

Limeade:

They hit the nail on the head with this one, as I love its very natural-smelling/tart scent--it has a sour citrus note that hasn't been sugared down into sappiness (so to speak). Yet, it does have a sugary note, as it should, because limeade (lime juice + sugar + water).

I'm really going to enjoy wearing these lip treats, and I thank my sis for her thoughtful gift--it was a kiss on the lips, for sure!